On September 30, 2013, the first group of graduates from the Museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School will receive their Doctor of Philosophy degrees at the inaugural commencementfor the graduate school—a banner day in the history of the Museum. During the next few weeks, we'll profile the seven graduates here on the Museum's blog.

Celebrate the role illustration has played in scientific discovery with Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustrations from the Museum’s Library, a new exhibition opening at the Museum on Saturday, October 19.

The new Hayden Planetarium Space Show Dark Universe, which premieres at the Museum on November 2, will take viewers on a journey to the edges of the observable universe and back to Earth to Bell Laboratories and Mount Wilson Observatory where groundbreaking cosmic discoveries have been made. But long before the Space Show is ready for the dome, most scenes begin with a simple sketch.